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Here's an interesting post about Fidel Castro's protégé, Hugo Chavez.

Venezuela Asks Ex-President Carter to Aid Talks *** CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela on Thursday asked former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to help soothe lingering political tensions after April's coup against President Hugo Chavez and welcomed international observers to monitor the nation's democratic process. Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said he had written to Carter asking him to help foster dialogue in the bitterly divided South American nation. "We're not considering intervention, we're looking for a process to facilitate talks," Rangel said.

Nearly eight weeks after rebel military and civilian leaders briefly toppled Chavez, Venezuela is still mired in political uncertainty and jitters over another possible uprising. Talks aimed at brokering dialogue between Chavez supporters and his critics have descended into political sniping as both sides blame each other for the deaths of civilians shot by gunmen during the April 11-14 ouster.

Carter, working from his nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta after leaving office in 1981, has established himself as an elder statesman helping to settle conflicts around the world. Last month he became the most senior U.S. statesman to visit Cuba since its 1959 revolution. He met Cuban dissidents in Havana as part of his push for internal reforms in the island's one-party Communist state.

The Carter Center confirmed it had received the request. "We did receive the invitation from the Venezuelan vice president and we are taking it under consideration," a Carter Center spokesman said. ***

Yasser Arafat visited Cuba in 1974 and received its highest honor, the National Order of the Bay of Pigs.

How fitting; I can imagine the horror of a moslem receiving an honour associated with pigs!

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